Full Name
Leticia Citizen
Job Title
i4Coach
Company
Hawthorne School
Bio
Leticia Citizen has begun her 21st year as an educator. She has taught Kindergarten (2 years), First Grade (7 years), and Fifth Grade (9 years). This is her third year as an i4Coach at Hawthorne School. She uses many instructional tools to impactfully educate, with a particular interest in technology-enhanced teaching and global connections. As a result, she currently and effectively implements many applications and programs available to teachers, helping augment their student's learning, modernizing traditional classroom methods. Leticia is an educator who loves to challenge, engage, and make life-long connections with students and teachers.
Leticia also dedicates her life to social justice and providing professional development for educators and administrators. Collaborating with members of her PLN, Equity In Action was born, an organization looking at who is missing and present in educational spaces, acknowledging where diversity is lacking, and tracking the data behind why. As educators who value learning from the experience and ideas of diverse voices, we recognize the importance of creating welcoming spaces that allow ALL people to feel welcomed and valued. In addition to Equity In Action, Leticia, with Dr. Toutoule Nyoya and Cicely Day, have created Tech.Teach.Grow, LLC. Providing high quality professional development to teachers and administrators, Tech.Teach.Grow, LLC use technology as a tool in tandem with proven research based teaching and learning methodology to deliver our services to our clients.
Leticia shares how she integrates various digital platforms and tech tools with teachers at numerous CUE-affiliate conferences around California and Nevada. She also has presented on these same topics at numerous national conferences over the last several years, most notably NSTA (2018), NCFL (2016 & 2017), NCTE (2018 & 2019), TCEA (2018, 2019, & 2020), FETC (2019 & 2020) and returning to ISTE (2017, 2018, & 2019).
Leticia currently serves as an ambassador and trainer for a variety of digital tools including Edmodo, Seesaw, Nearpod, Wakelet, PenPal Schools, Newsela, and Flipgrid. She is also a Level 1 Google Certified Educator and a returning Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.
Leticia also dedicates her life to social justice and providing professional development for educators and administrators. Collaborating with members of her PLN, Equity In Action was born, an organization looking at who is missing and present in educational spaces, acknowledging where diversity is lacking, and tracking the data behind why. As educators who value learning from the experience and ideas of diverse voices, we recognize the importance of creating welcoming spaces that allow ALL people to feel welcomed and valued. In addition to Equity In Action, Leticia, with Dr. Toutoule Nyoya and Cicely Day, have created Tech.Teach.Grow, LLC. Providing high quality professional development to teachers and administrators, Tech.Teach.Grow, LLC use technology as a tool in tandem with proven research based teaching and learning methodology to deliver our services to our clients.
Leticia shares how she integrates various digital platforms and tech tools with teachers at numerous CUE-affiliate conferences around California and Nevada. She also has presented on these same topics at numerous national conferences over the last several years, most notably NSTA (2018), NCFL (2016 & 2017), NCTE (2018 & 2019), TCEA (2018, 2019, & 2020), FETC (2019 & 2020) and returning to ISTE (2017, 2018, & 2019).
Leticia currently serves as an ambassador and trainer for a variety of digital tools including Edmodo, Seesaw, Nearpod, Wakelet, PenPal Schools, Newsela, and Flipgrid. She is also a Level 1 Google Certified Educator and a returning Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.
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